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calm air

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Noun1.calm air - wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale
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air current, current of air, wind - air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"
Beaufort scale, wind scale - an international scale of wind force from 0 (calm air) to 12 (hurricane)


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She stirr'd not - breath'd not - for a voice was there How solemnly pervading the calm air
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
said Planchet, humiliated by the suspicion, and moreover, terrified at the calm air of the Musketeer.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
He entered the bureaus with a calm air, and went at once into Baudoyer's section to ask him to come to the office of the head of the division and receive instructions as to the business which that incapable being was henceforth to direct.
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